Alea Iacta Est

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

We have Max and Sema

And Marcus

and Grebog and Nikodas

Here to wrap up the AIE WINTER CON!

All that and more coming up right now…

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Grebog

Before we get into the AIE con, we want to get a Real time update on the Starbase from Grebog and Nikodas:

AIECon Winter 2022 Wrapup

Schedule

Saturday

Guild Town Hall

Board Game Panel

Podcast Panel (with help from Sema and Grebog)

Marcus – https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1430876790

Casual Games- Kini and Red hosted Casual games, which included a ton of Jackbox – evidently, one needs to watch out for AlbusPuer in Murder Trivia Party! Kini, Red, and Tabby all hosted streams (Tabby’s was on going at the time we were writing notes, but will link as soon as we have it!)

Kini – https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1430585174

Board Game Arena, Forgotten Waters

D&D – Duskmire, Pelell, DPRoberts

DPRoberts – The heroes of Griffon Riders!

WoW – Noob Raid

Sunday

Trial of Style – Horde and Alliance were hosted GustyTail

Anirra, Ponairi, Krispybacon and Crwthe (me) did several runs on Alliance side. Ponairi and Gusty ran on Horde. I was late starting that one because my D&D with DPRoberts went long. How odd!

Trial of Style – Alliance

Tabby – Casual Games

Board Game Arena

D&D – DPRoberts

And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Everyone for joining us.

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://andrewallenmusic.com/

:In THREE WEEKS, Mew and Abovan will be talking about FFXIV. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Get AIE Con on your Calendars

PIE for Moogle Treasure Trove

End of Dragons is Nigh

Lost Ark is adding to the fun… nights

And joining us to explain why he’s responsible for ½ of the 70 million Guardian deaths in Destiny 2 is Marcus “Guardian Down! … RIP That Guy!” B814!

All that and more coming up right now…

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Destiny 2

Ok, we’ll be digging into Destiny 2 shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…

AIE News

Community

Mandatory Fun Nights

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 417: Legacy of the Spoilers

Time’s up. The embargo on spoilers is lifted. Time to talk about the 7.0 story.

Working Class Nerds

Marcus and Nick sit down with Doritos, friend of the show and Nerds Community Super-Member! The trio talk about the new Kenobi Trailer, criticize SWTOR’s 7.0 expansion, and talk about Nick’s love life (lol). Enjoy! – NSFW!

Fleet Action Report – Nikodas New Player Challenge Levels 13 to 19

Nikodas and his daughter are running their new KDF recruits all the way to level 19!

NOMADS

WoW

Hell Froze Over (Alliance side) defeated 3/11 bosses on Normal while Behind the Curve and Filthy Casuals are at 2/11 bosses. Our Teams are recruiting so if anyone is interested check the Discord #raidteam-recruitment or #raidteam-news channels.

Next weekend as part of AIE Con 2022, Gustytail will be leading Trial of Style runs on Sunday March 20. This twice a year event is a chance to show off your favorite fashions while judging everyone else’s look.

WoW Classic

SWTOR

We are still settling into the Legacy of the Sith expansion. With the new content, story skips, gearing tracks and other new features, it’s a lot to process. Feel free to ask questions in the swtor discord channel and join us on Tuesday nights where we make progress together.

Maellung is planning a return of Friday Night Flashpoints

ESO

Things planned or coming up for the guild:

FFXIV

First off, a reminder that the suspension of new game purchases has been lifted. Furthermore, if you just wanted to check out the game on its free trial, well good news everyone! The free trial has been resumed! So, now you can check out everything that FFXIV has to offer! Come for the adventure, dungeons, and loot, stay for the pretty glamours!

In game, we have a few events to bring up. Starting March 14th, the yearly event “Little Ladies’ Day” starts up. If you happened to be listening to our voices after Tuesday, go to Ul’dah, Steps of Nald and start up the yearly event. It changes from year to year, with new rewards every year. If you happen to be reading the show notes, here is the link -> Little Ladies’ Day 2022 | FINAL FANTASY XIV, The Lodestone. If you want to see the link, check the show notes at aie-guild.org.

Also starting up on Tuesday, the 14th, The Moogle Treasure Trove! Get the Irregular Tomestones from doing various activities in the game, and you can trade them in for some cosmetics that may no longer be available or difficult to get on your own. Again, if you are reading the show notes, here’s the link. Moogle Treasure Trove the Hunt for Scripture | FINAL FANTASY XIV, The Lodestone. (Visit the aie-guild.org to see the link!) This event will run until the launch of patch 6.1. Speaking of which…

Patch 6.1 is on the horizon! While we don’t have an exact date, we do have “mid-April” as an approximate time frame. A whole slew of new things, such as more MSQ, dungeons, trials, Trials (like beast tribes but with a more respectful name), the return of Hildibrand (Abo’s note: YEAAAAAAH!), new Ultimate trial, and likely the most interesting change is the Improvements to the ARR 2.0 quests. Some people just don’t like group content. We get it and totally understand if you want to run completely solo. Now, AIE will be here for you, as we always have been. But, if you just want to log on, do your own thing, and be able to run dungeons as a solo player, the “Trust” system is going to be extended out to the base 2.0 game. This means any dungeons or trials that come up, you can chose to run them with a group of story relevant NPCs similar to the trust system that was started up in Shadowbringers and Endwalker.

There’s much more patch content new to talk about, so hopefully the AIE Podcast will have us on shortly (wink:wink) to talk about it in more detail.

In FC news, we are running multiple events over the week. Map Nights, Saturday nights at 9:30 EST, is still a hit and still has room for you. It’s fun, casual content, with extreme rewards for lining those Gil coffers. We do ask that you have completed the MSQ or at least unlocked all of the zones. You do not need to bring a treasure map, but it is always apricated if you do. If you do bring a map, we are looking for the “Kumbhiraskin” maps, as they are made for a group and has the chance to spawn the bonus portals.

For the FC buffs, remember to activate the Heat of Battle 3 buffs on the weekends. We “cook” up the grade 3 buffs during the week so that we can get that extra bump in XP on the weekends. Any one with the “member” rank or higher can refresh buffs or invite new people to the FC for that matter.

Remember, Discord is usually the best place to get a hold of the FFXIV member of AIE. So come on down, say hello, and we can help you get setup in the exciting adventures of FFXIV!

STO

Science branch is closing in being able to unlock it’s final tier V project as well. And that will make all sections of the Starbase Tier V.

The colony is still moving along nicely with it’s projects.

STO has started a red alert event. But as this is a short event, likely going to have an announcement of the next event soon. (Probably this week)

We have Fleet Fun night on Thursdays at 11pm Eastern. Nikodas and Grebog host Fleet Action Report live at twitch.tv/grebog every Monday at 11pm Eastern. This next Monday we will be checking back in on the new character challenge we have been running.

GW2

We unlocked the Cantha Guild Hall this past week, and we need your help to upgrade and decorate it. We are looking for people that want to make our guild hall a home by decorating it, and we need help acquiring the materials to upgrade the hall.

Currently we are working on upgrading the tavern which will allow us to have better guild wide buffs. We are in need of Empty Kegs, or the materials to craft them, (See Pinned post in discord). We also need bottles of Elonian Wine (or the gold to purchase them), and lots of Elder wood planks, Mithril Bars and Varies Leather Squares.

Jehdai will be looking at getting strikes going once more people get through the story. Mandatory Fun Nights are Mondays at . and dungeons and more happen monthly.

LOTRO

LOST ARK

Some members have already achieved Tier 3 content and gear. Between new players and veteran player’s alts, there are daily groups running through daily and weekly group content such as chaos and abyssal dungeons as well as the guardian raids.

Beginning next weekend, on Saturdays from 8PM – midnight Eastern, we’ll be hosting weekly “Fun Nights” with a focus on the Adventure Tome zone completions. You don’t need to show up at 8 or go until midnight, this is just the general window of time most may be on. Explore the world and collect rewards.

If you have any questions, or wish to join AIE in Lost Ark, visit the AIE discord’s Lost Ark category or hop into the voice channels. The usual crew is happy to help and answer any questions you may have.

And with that, let’s get back to Marcus and find out what’s going on in Destiny 2.

GAME NEWS

I was talking with Durus and after talking with him he passed the clan founder title to me… I swear he had his finger on the transfer button! But some awesome things have been happening in game!

THE WITCH QUEEN CAMPAIGN AND CONTENT

THE GLAIVE

VOID 3.0

GAMBIT CHANGES

BALANCE CHANGES

This week at Bungie, it’s all about the Vow of the Disciple World First race.

What a wild week it’s been. It feels like just yesterday we were announcing The Witch Queen, and now we find ourselves on the doorstep of a World First raid race. This is the weekend that many of you have been waiting for, strategically planning your Power gains and grabbing armfuls of snacks from grocery store shelves. In under two days, the race begins. Let’s get you up to speed.

If you’re new to Destiny or have yet to engage in a raid, this is the pinnacle of our endgame content. Players around the world are challenged to compete, decoding devious puzzles while engaging in heavy combat through multiple activity encounters. We’re not just talking a few enemies here and there, but hordes of combatants clawing away at lives and time while players race to the finish line. We expect no different from Vow of the Disciple with multiple teams at the final boss trading attempts at reaching victory.

Now, let’s talk rules. The World First race for Vow of the Disciple will take place in Contest Mode. This is a unique variant of the raid, only offered for the first 24 hours, capping every Guardian at a specific Power level to ensure an even playing field. We announced last week that 1530 Power is your target, as this will be the highest Power your Guardian will perform at against the enemies you face. Here’s a quick bulleted list for all who are in the hunt for the World First win:

Vow of Disciple Race timeline

Contest Mode:

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://andrewallenmusic.com/

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

Next week, we will be on with a wrap up on AIECON. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mewkow

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

AIE Raids Lost Ark

The Free Company Workshop is open for business

More Fleet Milestones

Stand by for an assault on the GW2 Guild Hall

And, we have Max and Sema here to talk about Legacy of the Sith

All that and more coming up right now…

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Ok, we’ll be digging into this weeks news shortly, but before that, let’s get back to Sema and Max and find out what’s going on in SWTOR.

GAME NEWS

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

Max and Sema, you know them! They are willing to burn and the burning has begun. 7.0 is here and they dig in.

Working Class Nerds – Episode 141: Konquered by Kitties!!!

Marcus and Nick are joined by not only the legendary Kitty Kissz, but ALSO Kitty Treets!!! Watch out, this episode is definitely spicier than usual, but it’s a wild ride of fun. The foursome chat about SWTOR’s disappointing expansion, dive into Kitty Treets and Kitty Kissz’s DUAL STREAMING! Enjoy!

Find more of Kitty Kissz at:

Find more of Kitty Treets at:

Treets’ fave stream moment: Super sauce on Kitty’s pants

Fleet Action Report – Ep 84 A Call to Arms TFOs

Fleet Action Report, Grebog and Nikodas are headed back into the TFOs. We explain any mechanics in the featured TFO, and how you can beat the TFO while getting the most marks for reward. We start with the two TFOs that are part of the current 12th Anniversary event, then see what we get in the TFO random queue.

Boards & Swords #190 – Sports Games, $350 edition of Tsuro, New edition of Libertalia

Apparently there was a “big game” recently? Something about sports? To celebrate, we’re talking about some sports related board games and video games! Oh, and magic the gathering isn’t as hot as it used to be?

NOMADS

The hotly anticipated MMO ARPG officially launched just over a week ago, on February 11th. It has already made Steam history with over 1.3 million concurrent users in a single day, ranking 2nd only to Public Battlegrounds.

It experienced some launch challenges, as many new MMO titles do, that prevented new players creating characters on servers that friends had been playing on during the 3 day head-start. However, this lasted only a day and new character creation restrictions were rarely in place for long as the server populations have stabilized across the various servers and regions. More information concerning these issues, relevant compensatory gifts offered, and more has been communicated on the game’s official website: https://playlostark.com/

Alea Iacta Est’s presence is on the NA East Region’s Regulus server and we are currently accepting invites to “Aie Fidelis”. The game’s guild feature is unlocked after you acquire your first mount quest reward, and is accessible from the Community Menu in the game’s interface.

Four guilds have been established in response to the initial interest in the game from the AIE Gaming Community in launch. Guild capacities are set initially to 30 members with an increasing cap up to 100 as the guild levels. This cap has been raised to 32 in two guilds which have already achieved Level 2. Guild progression and participation are important components to the growth of players’ characters as well as the guild. Each week, a portion of earned contributions is donated to the guild and a bonus reward of player currency is distributed to players based on their weekly contributions across activities from weekly guild tasks, daily donations or aid given to ongoing research projects, to simply logging in each day.

The plan is to continue increasing the guild capacity of the guilds until such time as they can support the “main” characters of all playing within a single guild or two. We will maintain the other guilds and support their growth for any overflow in interest as well as alt characters that are important to any other character’s progression as many elements are the game are shared across an account’s roster of characters on that server.

Guild event planning is underway and will include meetups for daily and weekly activities, other ongoing systems’ progression such as Adventure Tome completions, Mokoko Seed Hunt nights, and more. Stay tuned in to the AIE public discord server’s Lost Ark game category for more details.

If you are interested in the game and have questions, feel free to visit us in the text and voice channels in discord, or download the free game and join us on NA East Regulus to play with the 50-plus members currently enjoying the world of Arkesia.

Current members, remember to keep up those daily donations to spur guild growth and ask for an invite to the region-wide custom chat channel to connect with players across all four guilds!

WoW

WoW Classic – we are looking for a few more people when Wrath comes out. #lookingfor10

ESO

Things planned or coming up for the guild:

SWTOR

FFXIV

And more! The free trial also returns February 22nd, so if you’re curious about FFXIV, hit us up in discord and join us on the Goblin server in the Crystal Data Center.

Weekly guild activities continue with mount farming on Fridays and map night on Saturdays.

The Free Company Workshop is open for business! The current log of the airships, submarines, and FC construction projects are logged in discord in the #workshop-log channel.

If there is something that you would like for us to create or farm up for you in the workshop, you can message an officer in discord to get the request in. Due to the queue of players requesting things, as well as the RNG of the expeditions, it may take some time for your desired item to be delivered.

Some examples of things you could request are housing “skins”, minions, rare crafting materials, and rare orchestration rolls.

STO

The anniversary event still going, which rewards aT6 ship. This is a really nice variety, the Jarok Alliance Carrier. You only have until the 24th to get your needed 20 days of activities, however you can buy out any progress you need with Zen, the in game currency.

The Klingon Recruit event is also still ongoing. You can unlock special rewards and account wide rewards through various tasks you compete while playing. You only have to get the communicator device that tracks progress before March 9th. The tasks you can complete on your own schedule.

They have started the new year long event campaign, which will reward a lockbox ship, 2 T6 100% free ship coupons, or 1,500 lobi. The first event for this is The Borg Resurgence. They have remastered two space and one ground TFO fighting the Borg. You have until March 15th to get 14 days worth of progress. Once complete you get a console that allows you to assimilate an enemy target, three TFO reward boxes with your choice of a specialization point or ultimate tech upgrades, and 25k dilithium.

We have Fleet Fun Night on Thursday at 11pm est, and Nikodas and Grebog host Fleet Action Report live at https://twitch.tv/grebog every Monday at 11pm est. This Monday starts the new player challenge for the show.

GW2

Stand by for an assault to unlock the new guild hall, Jehdai will be setting this event up shortly after end of dragons launches.

MFN at is Monday’s at 9:30 Eastern. Expect more stuff to happen during this slot when the expansion launches.

Dungeons and more (check discord for timing)

Lots of stuff in the guild bank, please use it.

Message #gw2

LOTRO

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://andrewallenmusic.com/

In three weeks, we’ll be talking to Guest in Game. So until then, AIE…

– This is Tetsemi

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

February is filled with the love of games… so many games

Sith Happens

PvP in ESO

Huge congrats to the STO Fleet!

And, we have GustyKoo here to talk to us about AIE in World of Warcraft!

All that and more coming up right now…

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Ok, we’ll be digging into WoW shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…

AIE News

Community

Mandatory Fun Nights

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 414: Legacy of the Sith Eve

With only a few days left before 7.0 we’ve decided to team up again with Working Class Nerds for another joint episode and talk about what we’ve been doing, what we are excited about coming in 7.0 ,and what we each expect to be doing first.

Working Class Nerds – Episode 140: SWTOR Escape Pod Cast Mash-Up!!!

Marcus and Nick are joined by the legendary duo: Max and Sema from SWTOR Escape Pod Cast!! This episode is a formatting blend of the two shows, where the four of them break down what they’re looking forward to from SWTOR’s upcoming 7.0 expansion: Legacy of the Sith!! Enjoy!

Find more of Max and Sema at: https://www.twitch.tv/newoverlords

Boards & Swords #189 – Runescape is going to be a board game? Games from our childhoods

A Batman version of Detective? People shelling out millions for Marvel Zombies, and we talk about those “classic” games that we grew up playing in our childhoods.

Fleet Action Report Ep 83 Best Served Cold

Fleet Action Report, a Star Trek Online video podcast; Nikodas and Grebog intend to finish the Cold War! Ending the threat posed by the Breen to the Deferi people. Will they uncover the reason for this unwarranted attack?

NOMADS

Lost Ark

AIE is currently playing on the NA East Regulus server. Note that character restrictions may be temporarily appearing to help curtail new account creations on heavily populated worlds. They are being lifted periodically as populations stabilize to allow players to join friends on these servers. It may require a game restart for it to accurately reflect on the server list. Should you have one character on the server, these restrictions will not apply to your account. If you do see a queue in excess of two or three thousand, it moves quickly.

Join over 40 members of AIE in the game as they take on dungeons, raids, weekly tradeskill tasks, and much more. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop by the Lost Ark category in the AIE Community Discord.

WoW

Oh and then there was this: Blizzard announced the long awaited Patch 9.2 will launch on Tuesday, Feb 22 — in just over a week! But wait, there’s more: Future Patch 9.2.5 will bring cross faction dungeons, raids and PvP to WoW. Our Alliance Raid Team, Hell Froze Over has fulfilled their name’s prophecy. There was much rejoicing!

SWTOR

In Swtor it’s all about that xpac. “Legacy of the Sith” is launching on Tuesday this week (the 15th). If you ask people what they are looking forward to the most, it’s probably the next installment of the story. Many systems are getting an update too. If you’ve been thinking about dipping your toes back into Star Wars: The Old Republic, now is a pretty good time. It won’t matter if you remember how to do things, or not. It’s all new again. If you would be brand new, come check it out too. You’ll be figuring it out with us.

Because this is normally how major updates go, we are predicting smooth sailing and no server restarts! YMMV….

Join us in discord on Tuesday the 15th at 9PM. We’ll be hanging out in voice while we explore the newness. It will be a spoiler free zone, though!

ESO

Things planned or coming up for the guild:

STO

The anniversary event is also going on, which awards a free T6 ship, and a pretty good one at that, the Jarok Alliance Carrier. It only runs through the 24th and you need 20 days worth of activities, but you can buy out missing progress with Zen, the in-game currency.

The Klingon Recruit event is also happening, which lets you create a new Klingon character and complete special tasks to earn account wide rewards. And while all the rewards take awhile, you only need to get the progress tracking item by Mar 9 which is only a short way into the tutorial.

We have Fleet Fun Night on Thu at 11p est, and Nikodas and Grebog host Fleet Action Report live at https://twitch.tv/grebog every monday at 11p est.

Activity and attendance at both of these as been ticking up, and more are always welcome.

FFXIV

GW2

Jehdai will be setting up a group night shortly after launch to unlock the new guild hall. Stay tuned to the GW2 discord Channel for scheduling and more information.

Dungeons and More (usually monthly check discord for scheduling)

Come join us in Cantha!

Also the guild bank is full of potentially useful items, please take what you need, if you need something that you can’t withdraw ask an officer to pull it out for you.

LOTRO

And with that, let’s get back to Gusty and find out what’s going on in AIE in World of Warcraft

One other thing coming with the patch is a male counterpart to the Warlock succubus pet. The Incubus is unabashedly sexy and I am interested to see the response. When I started playing WoW, I was uncomfortable with the succubus’ behavior but shrugged it off along with the popular joke, “There are no girls in WoW.” Times have changed and the Incubus is part of that.

Moving on – There’s excitement in our Alliance Guild Virtus regarding the cross faction play coming in future Patch 9.2.5. They can’t wait to join Noob Raid on Saturday nights. Virtus is also very active in running Mythic Plus dungeons and thanks to them I’ve actually been enjoying this content. I’d like to encourage Mythic groups on Horde side and cross faction play may be one path toward this.

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://andrewallenmusic.com/

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

Next time, we’ll be talking to Max and Semat in Star Wars. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Gusty’s new guild challenge is too too cute

SWTOR- Return of the Hype- or, the Hype strikes back, take your pick

ESO- Trials planned, and bosses killed

Zoot’s a running (mount farms) in FFXIV

And, Jehdai is here to talk to us about AIE in Guild Wars 2!

All that and more coming up right now…

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Welcome to episode #379 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Tetsemi: – (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkallah: Hi folks, there is boozy bread pudding and apple tarts in the guild kitchen). This week we are joined by special guests Jehdai who is here to talk to us about AIE in Guild Wars 2 Welcome!

Before we start in on the news, let’s get back to Jehdai and find out what’s going on in Guild Wars 2- because there is a lot!.

GAME NEWS

GW2 Podcast Notes

Thank you so much for all of that great information! Now, it’s time for this week’s news…

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

Bryant Wood, Bioware Systems Designer, posted some extensive notes on gearing in 7.0 including some new news. We break it down and talk through our plans for gearing up.

Working Class Nerds – Episode 138: Guardian Down Cast!!!

Marcus and Nick are joined by Hazel and Gatr of the Guardian Down Podcast! Hazel and Gatr are the hosts of the Guardian Down Podcast which focuses on Destiny 2. The three of them chat podcasting, Star Wars, and of course Destiny 2’s upcoming expansion The Witch Queen!

You can find more of Hazel and Gatr at:

Boards & Swords #188 – Essen is Bought, Tony Hawk the Board Game? (Feat. Beneeta Kaur!)

Fleet Action Report – Episode 81 It’s Very Cold in Space part 1

On this episode of Fleet Action Report, a Star Trek Online informational livestream: Nikodas and Grebog are called to defend the Deferi from a group of aggressive aliens. Who are those that would attack the delicate Balance of the Deferi, and can we stop them?

WoW

Gustytail also has a new Guild Challenge! This Wednesday is 02/02/2022, and clearly, the best way to observe this is to WEAR A TUTU — or your best approximation. In game or at home, embrace the silliness and twirl like no one is watching. Then post in pics or it didn’t happen.

Gustytail will be disappointed if @CyberWaif doesn’t have something suitable at the ready.

WoW Classic

FFXIV

Our lovely community member Zoot is also running mount farms on Friday at 8pm eastern. Level requirement depends on what is being run, but it’ll generally adapt to whoever wants to come. Don’t be intimidated if you’ve never done an extreme trial before! They’re not as hard as the name Extreme might imply.

SWTOR

Last week, the guild made a run at winning a planet in Total Galactic War. We fought the good fight, had a lot of fun, and put up more points than we ever have before. Early on in the week, it became clear that really only one other guild was even a challenge for us. We went neck and neck with them for most of the week, but on the weekend, they really poured on the steam and took a commanding lead. Afterwards, their guild leader congratulated us on a battle well fought and shared with us that they had not had more fun in swtor in a long time. It was a good week!

ESO

Trials are on the agenda on nights we have 12 people online for MFN’s.

At the global reveal live stream they announced the Legacy of the Bretons Year-long Saga and that the next chapter (expansion) is called High Isle.

STO

The reason this is so big is it is the final upgrade for the military tier of the Starbase. It also means we will have access to all the fleet ships, minus one that comes from the colony. And most importantly once complete it will allow us to start working on the Starbase tier V upgrade.

Grebog wants to send a huge thank you all to the fleet for their hard work getting us here and their continued hard work on these projects.

Grebog has been asked what will this mean once we are done with all of these? How can I still get fleet credits? There will still be plenty of ways we can get fleet credits from provisioning projects to temporary boosts projects.

Fleet fun nights are every Thursday at 11pm. We do things from helping people level to running TFOs and event tasks.

GW2

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And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including… Well, no segments this week, but if you want to try your hand at creating one, we would love to have you!

Next time, we’ll be talking to Gusty in WoW. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mewkow

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Nomads of the Lost Ark

WITT is going all Druid

Lifeday fun in SWTOR

MFNS are back in full swing for 2022

And, What we did on our end of year vacation

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AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 410: Always In Motion

Always in motion is the future. With that in mind, we still try predicting what’s coming in 2022 with our annual predictions and wishes.

Working Class Nerds – https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com/

Episode 136: The Bang Gang!

Marcus and Nick are joined by SM Playboi!!! Playboi is a Twitch streamer, giant Star Wars and Anime Nerd, and a great friend of both the show and their streams. The three of them have RIDICULOUS conversations about all of the games they’re playing and of course SM Playboi’s streaming career. Enjoy!

You can find more of SM Playboi at:

Fleet Action Report – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqEKYJPKmiiYuj7eiHy6kOg

F.A.R. Ep 79 Call to Arms TFO’s: Assault on Terok Nor, Brotherhood of the Sword, Khitomer in Stasis

Fleet Action Report, a Star Trek Online video podcast; Grebog and Nikodas are taking the fight to the enemies of the Khitomer Alliance (potentially on the Ground). The Ground TFOs have long been ignored, but here, now their time has come.

Boards and Swords – https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords

A Much Delayed Pax Unplugged Recap (Feat. Jessica and Andrew from Gameosity) – Boards & Swords #187

Chris & Philip decided to take a break from the holidays, but its a new year and time to talk about Pax Unplugged! To help Chris out, Andrew & Jessica Fisher from Gameosity are on the show!

NOMADS

Launching on Feb 11, 2022, this “Diablo-esque” style action role playing game with an isometric/top-down view, it was originally released in South Korea in 2018, published by Smilegate. It will be published by Amazon Games for the NA release.

Though it is free-to-play, founders’ packs are available for purchases through Steam and Amazon. These packs confer the usual perks, including a 3 day head-start for players on Feb 8, 2022. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1599340/Lost_Ark/

AIE is currently gauging interest in the game. If you intend to play, please contact @Durus or leave a comment in the AIE discord’s channel nomads with #lostark. Server selection and guild details will be released once that information is available.

Website: https://www.playlostark.com

Diablo 3

Valheim

WoW

Noob Raid had it’s 2nd run of 2022 and Dankinia’s Floor Tanking score increased to 3 deaths. Next week the plan is to skip to the final bosses of Sanctum. We’re coming for you Kel’Thuzad and Sylvanas!

Behind the Curve has room for more raiders. Anyone interested please check the Raidteam Recruitment channel.

WoW Classic

SWTOR

For the guild, December was a cozy month of snowballs and Operations and wookiee hugging. As we roll into the second half of January 2022, though, it’s going to heat up. It’s Total Galactic War! That means that while guildies play SWTOR, the guild accumulates points that could win us a planet. This will be a serious effort and the competition for a planet is steep. If you want to help out there are several things you can do in just a few minutes every day that would add substantially to our point total. Drop by the SWTOR discord channel for specifics. If your character is not in the guild yet, hop in on Sunday or Monday to get in before reset for your points to count. If you character is brand new, not to worry. You will get SUBSTANTIAL points for those early levels. It really is for everyone.

Come join us for some pew pew and some (show off light sabers here) – Vrummmummmmm

FFXIV

Our lovely community member Zoot is also running mount farms on Friday at 8pm eastern. Level requirement depends on what is being run, but it’ll generally adapt to whoever wants to come. Don’t be intimidated if you’ve never done EX trials before, unsynced they’re not too hard and we’ll be happy to have you and help you through it!

ESO

We also jumped to our death and helped a member get the Slaughter Fish achievement.

The Daedric War Celebration runs from January 20th – Feb 1st so our MFN’s will be focused on doing the dailies for the event tickets and killing bosses.

We plan to do more trials on nights we have 12 people online for MFN.

There will be a Global Reveal Event for ESO on January 27th at 12pm PST. They are going to give us a peek at the upcoming Chapter and DLCs that will be released this year. Tuning into the show on Twitch will earn you a new coral crab pet and a crown crate though Twitch drops as long as you have your accounts linked.

STO

Military: 15 projects to go

While yes, you can only do 1 project every 20 hours (1 day lets say) that means we should be working on the big unlock project for Military in 3 weeks or less. This will then free up resource requirements and hopefully make it more likely we are triggering daily, but even still means 2 months we should have engineering done and 3 months science should be done, if not way sooner.

LOTRO

And with that, let’s talk about the fun and games we had over our break!

GAME NEWS

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Next time, we’ll be talking to Jehdai in Guild Wars 2. So until then, AIE…

– This is Tetsemi

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

WITT gets organized!

Hey, Bioware, how soon is soon?

Looking for New Life? Reach out on Discord!

Red Alert, Red Alert- for the next two weeks, at least

And, we have Abovan here to talk to us about AIE in FFXIV

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GAME NEWS

We bought a house! A large house!

Big thanks to Reka for helping us in the move to the large plot.

Our new home is located in the Lavender Beds, 9th Ward, plot 33.

The new house is on a large plot, so the house is also large. Since it is a large, we get much more real estate to work with, both inside and out. The new house will feature 3 garden plots, all of the crafting stations, and more vendors in the house, such as materia affixers, which we did not have the NPC budget for in the old house.

The additional Garden Plots will help increase the rate that we can churn out the Thavnairian Onion. These items allow you to increase the level cap of your Chocobo Companion by 1. When you cap out, feed it to your bird, and you will be able to continue to level up your companion up to level 20.

As the house starts empty, it will take us some time to settle in and get a full decoration done. So, things are in flux right now in the house and things may move around until we settle in on a housing layout. However, when we do, we plan on having a big AIE home warming party. We are working out the details now. When we have some more defined plans, we will let everyone know via Discord.

Grade 3 Heat of Battle Buffs!

We are now cranking out Grade 3 Heat of Battle buffs. These buffs provide all member a flat 15% bonus to combat XP. Since this is a limited commodity and take 70 hours to make, we will run these on weekends. During the week, we will be running the Grade 2 Heat of Battle Buffs, providing a 10% bonus to Combat XP. If you are leveling up your first job, an alt job, or just playing around with a side project, the XP bonus can really help you out.

Executing the buffs, you don’t have to wait for an officer! Anyone with the member rank (about 30 days in the FC) and above can kick off buffs (as well as invite characters to the FC). If you see the buffs fall off, from Friday to Sunday, you are welcome to fire off the Heat of Battle 3 and Reduced Rates 2. Reduced Rates drops teleportation costs by 10%. During the week, Monday-Thursday, we run grade 2 of both of those buffs, Heat of Battle 2 and Reduced Rates 2.

Game News

With this change, the Endwalker schedule changes to…

12/3 – Head Start for Pre-Orders

The live letter also has tons of new announcements on how Endwalker will work. 67 slides worth!

A few quick hits:

5 new series for the role quests! Not required for MSQ this time around. But a bonus quest line if you complete all of them will be made available in Patch 6.1 or later. No level 90 job quests, however.

Crafting and gathering quests lines in Studium, one of the new major areas in Endwalker.

New Treasure Map dungeon, Excitatron 6000 in patch 6.05 (the Savage raid patch). We do lots of treasure maps on Saturdays, so please look forward to the new maps!

Tons of PvP updates, including some small scale casual and ranked PvP with some skill based matchmaking.

Lost of HQ items are being removed. HQ crafts are still in play, however.

Fishing is getting a brand new mini-game interface!

EXP scaling is being re-worked. Important note: due to this change, any progress made towards a level will be reset back to 0 when Endwalker hits due to the EXP scaling.

New Immerse Sound Gamepack will be available. Allows for 360 sound, but does have a one-time cost for the Immerse license. A 14-day demo is available. (Abo’s note: I’ve used this in other games and it is incredibly awesome.)

New housing zone will be available in 6.1. Some FC only wards, some personally only wards. Both will have classic and lottery systems for purchasing the lots.

Got a vinyl record player? Like the Endwalker theme? Now you can get a 7” Vinyl single for 28 bucks on Nov 17th.

Finally, one of our community members and FFXIV players has a new FFXIV podcast!

Thank you for all of the great information,folks! Now, before we get into this weeks news, where can the peoples find you?

Now, to this weeks News!

AIE News

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 403: Unlimited Power

Unlimited news this week on 7.0 to go with our discussion of unlimited gear power over time.

Working Class Nerds – https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com/

Episode 127: Doritos!!!

After a LONG break due to Marcus’s illness, the boys are BACK! This week they’re joined by Doritos! Doritos is best described as a professional video game enthusiast; he raids with Marcus in SWTOR, is almost always in both Nick and Marcus’s streams, and is a HUGE Horizon: Zero Dawn fan. Enjoy!

Steampunk Rally Fusion, Lockup, Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza – Boards & Swords #183

Philip is out visiting family, so Cory & Jimmy from the Dirtbags of Holding podcast are here to talk with Chris about things like: a Risk Legacy Sequel? A board game with stacking magnet cubes? A game called Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza? Stick around for the first game show in awhile also!

Fleet Action Report – (STO) – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqEKYJPKmiiYuj7eiHy6kOg

Fleet Action Report Ep 69 Haters Going to Hate

Fleet Action Report, a Star Trek Online informational stream; Nikodas and Grebog are traveling into the realm of hatred. For tonight, it’s a pair of small craft missions they’ll attempt to conquer.

NOMADS

Diablo 3 season 25 is on the PTR, so that means that we are about 2 weeks away from its start. The new season will have soul shards to pay homage to the 25th anniversary of Diablo.

New World

New World is still in levelling phase. MFN every Thursday, tackling bigger incursions, running around the map.

WoW

A member of Where Is The Tank (WITT) organized a Mythic Tara-grew that included people from all of our AIE raid teams, and a few pugs. Inspiring teamwork there! They plan to continue Monday nights.

Behind the Curve (BtC) is 4/10 Heroic and making progress on Soulrender (aka Garrosh Nanny).

Kiddie Aggro (KA) and Better Late Than Never (BLTN) did Achievement runs for Glory of the Dominant Raider. It awards (Hand of Hrestimorak) a mount that looks like an armored glove and can play rock, paper, scissors.

Our Alliance side Raid Team Hell Froze Over (HFO) is 3/10 Heroic. Yes, we have an Alliance Guild on Earthen Ring and alts are welcome! No need to tell your main though.

SWTOR

Like any game studio, BW is introducing some changes that no one asked for, but there are two things coming that people HAVE been asking for: Multi-tagging and the ability to transmog weapons. Multi-tagging will change the shape of how we do World Bosses and will be especially great for us during MFNs. Swtor has long has an extensive and pretty convenient system for changing your character’s outfits, but weapons have always been left out of that picture. Now that we will be able to use quest rewards, special meaning looks, and all kinds of things to transmog our weapons independent of their value as gear.

So, if you always wanted to use Torchy as your blaster pistol and wanted to join in as everyone on a planet kills a World Boss, come join us in SWTOR. Now is the time to be getting those last few levels, cleaning out your inventory, acquiring a few XP boosts and generally just getting ready! Join us in the SWTOR discord channel with any questions or if you just want to chat about all things Star Wars.

ESO

Things planned or coming up for the guild:

Game or press release news:

FFXIV

GW2

Also included in the “Return to” Achievements are awesome rewards for doing strike missions. Strike missions are Raid level bosses that can be easily pugged. So far we have had Bonuses for Shiverpeaks Pass, The Voice and Claw of the fallen, and Whisper of Jormag. The bonus reward is 7 mystic clovers and 8 obsidian shards per strike bonus achievement completed. The 21 bonus clovers that we have been able to earn so far will save 153g (and approximately 39 Spirit Shards) from the cost of crafting a legendary. (Spirit shards are earned from rolling over the experience bar after you max out mastery tracks for a region. You also get a few for doing 3 of the daily tasks).

Next Beta Test is 11/30.

Guild Stuff: Next dungeons and more night is November 12th. Monday Fun nights at 8:30 Central Last if you need help with anything in game, don’t hesitate to ask in discord.

The expansion releases in February. Now is a great time to come back and get yourself prepared for it.

See you Tyria.

STO

LOTRO

https://store-new.standingstonegames.com/gundabad/

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://andrewallenmusic.com/

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

And, due to the upcoming Holiday season, this is going to be our last show of the year. We will return in Mid-January with a bevy of new guest!

– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Halloween approaches, don’t forget to post those pics!

We have MFN for New World!

We have a Raid Team Round up- And I didn’t have to do it!!

Endwalker, Experience the HYPE!

And, Dankinia took a break from falling off cliffs to join us for the podcast to talk ESO

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AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

From Gusty-Koo

Hey AIE folks, I love transmog both in game and RL. I would love to see what others are doing for Halloween. Please post in the #pics-or-it-didnt-happen channel on AIE Discord. For WoW players, I would especially love to see pics of your Headless Horseman mount, helm and/or sword (as proof they actually exist). Other games – show us your rarest and best loved looks! Starring your way, New World.

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 401: Low Sodium Merc Update

7.0 Merc style is on the PTS and we finally find out how salty we are about it.

Working Class Nerds – https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com/

Episode 126: Sidebar Sandwhich!!!

The only rule of this episode is that there ARE NO RULES!!! Kymeri and Atrax join Marcus and Nick for this wild ride of an episode, enjoy!!

You can find more of Kymeri at: https://www.twitch.tv/TheKymeri

Fleet Action Report (Star Trek Online) – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqEKYJPKmiiYuj7eiHy6kOg

Fleet Action Report Ep 67 Fall of the Old Ones

This week on Fleet Action Report, Nikodas and Grebog dive into the latest event. Fall of the Old Ones is a new event with a new ground based TFO for you to enjoy. We go through the Cat’s Tale TFO twice to try and show you different aspects of the TFO and even give you a few tricks to help you find all the candles, find all the black cats, and even how to get those pesky skeletons into the candle light.

Boards and Swords Podcast – https://boardsandswords.com

Thunder Road Vendetta with Guest Rob Daviau – Boards & Swords #182

We’ve got Rob Daviau from Restoration Games here to talk about their next Kickstarter: Thunder Road Vendetta! Plus a month’s worth of news!

NOMADS

We’re entering into the end of the year Holiday events-a-palooza stretch. Currently the Festival of the Lost is live until 2 Nov. Details: https://www.bungie.net/7/en/Seasons/Events/FestivalOfTheLost

New World

On Tuesday, we had our first MFN Trial, running around the map, fighting mid-level corrupted invasions and closing their portals.

On Thursday, we had our second MFN Trial, clearing a Pirate citadel, teaching who YARRs !

Voting was up about MFN evening selection. It was a close vote, but Thursday beat Wednesday.

If anyone wants to run a Wednesday later MFN, anyone can schedule and organize.

WoW

Congrats to Kiddie Aggro for 10/10 Heroic Sanctum of Domination, our 2nd raid team with Ahead of the Curve Achievement.

The Filthy Casuals are going on break until 9.2 after completing 10/10 Normal Sanctum.

Behind the Curve is 4/10 Heroic Sanctum and farming Normal to gear up some new members.

Where Is The Tank /WiTT (alts) and DoA continue to farm Normal Sanctum, with several proceeding directly to Noob Raid. Prepare for trouble, make it double.

WiTT (mains) is 8/10 Heroic with only Fatescribe (aka Wheel of Misfortune) and Sylvanas left to go.

WoW Game News

Upcoming Extended Maintenance for US Realms – Tuesday 10/26 2 am to 10 am PDT

Patch 9.1.5 has a release date? I mean, it has a release date! November 2nd.

“It has a lot of quality of life improvements and some cool new features that we wouldn’t usually expect in an x.5 patch, including easy Covenant swapping, new character customization, Legion Timewalking, the return of the Mage Tower, legacy loot for BFA raids, and a whole lot more.” (Thanks to Blizzard Watch for the summary – https://blizzardwatch.com/2021/10/21/patch-9-1-5-release-date/)

The Mage Tower will not release until December 7th when Legion Timewalking comes around. It will be available for two weeks (twooo weeeeks). You won’t be able to collect transmog that was available in Legion, but there are new Tier 20 Armor recolors and a mount to be obtained.

Official Patch Notes – https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/23731242/915-content-update-notes

FFXIV

Remember, Endwalker starts for early access for pre-orders on November 19th. If you pre-order any version, you get an earring with a 30% bonus to all xp earned. Also, the stats on the earring scale with you, as you level, and change depending on what job you are on. This also includes crafting classes.

If you are not the pre-order type, Endwalker will start on November 23rd.

Even with all of the trailers, announcements, live letters, and media days, there still more that they have yet to announce, so on November 5th at 10pm EST, 7 PM PST and 4 rocks past the 5th sand dune in Arizona time, we have Live Letter LXVII (67). Here, all that is listed is “New Endwalker Information’ and “Miscellaneous Updates” on the agenda, so we do expect to hear new info on the expansion.

In the Free Company, we are working on creating Grade 3 XP buffs for everyone. Here’s how you can help.

First off, we need to create the aether wheel. This is created in the workshop, which is accessible in the FC house, main floor, back left corner. In there, there is the workshop and in the middle, we have our current project, which will be the Grade 3 Heat of Battle aether wheel.

You can donate the items to complete the craft. An officer will need to pull it out of the crafting station and start up a new one. From there, we need to place it in the aether wheel stand, where it needs to “cook” for 70 hours. When the time comes, we will pull out the charged aether wheel out and add it to our buff inventory.

Come Friday and Saturday, we will want to activate the following buffs.

Heat of Battle 3

This will allow everyone in the Free Company to get a 15% bonus to all combat XP generated, as opposed to the 10% we would get from Heat of Battle 2.

Also, remember that anyone can refresh the buffs. If you see the buffs are down, go into the FC panel and reactivate them. Just remember to use the grade 3 buffs on Friday and Saturday so that we can get an extra bonus for the weekends.

It’s still not too late to jump into your Final Fantasy XIV adventure! Come on down to the ffxiv channel in discord and we can get you started.

SWTOR

The Feast of Prosperity and Double XP are still going on. Come join us Tuesday night for MFN where we will likely be killing an event boss or two, making some currency, and piling on the XP.

ESO

STO

The Mirror Guardian Cruiser will be available in the Zen Store starting 10/28.

Fleet Action Report is looking for 2 volunteers to help with the 10/25 show at 11pm Eastern. This will be to run a few Ground TFOs.

LOTRO

GW2

There is a bonus to do a strike mission (5 to 10 man content) in this weeks Return to Bonus Achievement set. The reward is 7 mystic clovers for a piece of content that takes maybe 5 minutes. if that. You need 77 Mystic Clovers to make a Legendary weapon, and they are either absurdly expensive to craft, or limited to PVP/WVW reward track end rewards, or the 7 you can get for logging in for 30 days. The best way to get the strike mission done, is to watch LFG. Contacts and LFG button the upper left (default key Y), Second tab down in that window (LFG), then Strike Missions (middle bottom of the list), pick looking for more, and Shiverpeaks is what you are looking for.

Jehdai is expecting to see this bonus pop up with each chapters set of Return to achievements. Most of the strikes are pretty easy, and are supposed to be an introduction to raids.

Guild stuff: Mandatory fun Nights happen on Monday’s at 8:30 Central (the only real time zone), Maellung hosts dungeon nights (best to check discord for these). last, if you need help with ANYTHING in game, reach out in our discord channel.

And with that, let’s get back to Dankinia and find out what’s going on in ESO.

GAME NEWS

Lately MFN’s in ESO have been event focused. With the Witches Festival going on we are running around dressed as skeletons, killing bosses for plunder skulls, collecting feathers, and finding places to jump off of. The event runs until Tuesday November 2nd at 10am EDT. You earn 2 event tickets for the first boss kill of the day and the plunder skulls can contain various “repulsive rewards” such as style items, furnishings and recipes, creep things, and fragments for a new pet called the Witch-Tamed Bear Dog. Don’t forget that using the whistle grants you a 100% exp boost that stacks with scrolls and drinking from the cauldron transforms you into a spooky undead skeleton. Also the first two fragments for the Doomchar Plateau are available in the event shop with the rest to be available later this year.

Deadlands, the next DLC zone, launches November 1st. It has new delves, new bosses, and new quests that continue the Gates of Oblivion story line. As is traditional, for our MFN that week we will explore the new area and see what adventures await us as well as find a high point for me to lead people off of.

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://andrewallenmusic.com/

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

Next time, we’ll be talking to Someone about something! . So until then, AIE…

– This is Mewkow

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

New World is a roaring success, quick, let’s get more servers!

Double XP and The Feast of Prosperity, oh my!

Shadow of the Mad King leads to Seasons of Dragons

This is Halloween, This is Halloween, in many games

And, we have GustyTail who is here to talk to us about AIE in World of Warcraft!!!

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AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

So we had a Feast of Prosperity. Well what about second feast? The second annual feast starts on Tuesday.

Working Class Nerds – https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com/

Episode 125: Stayin’ Alive… Seven!!!

Marcus and Nick sit down with Twitch streamer and awesome guy Stay Alive 7! We go on tons of sidebars and get into what ice cream Stay really likes! Thanks for listening!

https://www.twitch.tv/stayalive_7

Fleet Action Report – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqEKYJPKmiiYuj7eiHy6kOg

Nikodas and Grebog are back with another episode of Fleet Action Report to cover some more of the Task Force Operations in the game. We finished up the guest stars of 2020 with Shannon Cochran as Sirella. And then we head into the TFOs: Cure Found, Khitomer Vortex, and Hive Onslaught.

NOMADS

New World

The initial rush is passed, queues have totally disappeared, and AIE is established on Pyrallis (North America, East) under the Syndicate banner. We currently have 87 members, with around 20 online each evening. We’re already talking about MFN and adding sub-guilds.

I do hope Amazon Studio will license their engine and content, for many great games to spawn from that pearl.

Type: MMO, PvP, PvP, GvG, 50v50

WoW

SWTOR

Double xp started this week and will be going for three weeks. The Feast of Prosperity is on too. This event only comes around once a year, so now is the time to build up some currency to buy the holiday items, like decos, pets, mounts, and cosmetic armor. The new expansion is coming by the end of the year, so this is the perfect time to level up those last few alts.

ESO

Things planned or coming up for the guild:

Game or press release news:

FFXIV

Zoot is running a mount farm on Friday evening running extreme primals from previous expansions. Even if you don’t have a ton of experience in the game, you’re welcome to come! Only requirement is you be at level 50, 60 or 70.

Let Durus, Abovan or Kelseer know if you have any questions or are interested in getting into the game! We’d love to have you.

STO

25% off keys, until tomorrow (Monday)

New event starts on the 13th: Halloween Themed. Explore a haunted castle to rescue extragalactic aliens from the Devidians.

Until tomorrow (Monday) Mudd’s Market is 75% off.

Tomorrow (Monday) Fleet Action Report will be featuring a torpedo boat, and explaining how to build one!

GW2

The Halloween Event is live!. Tons of things to do, including, a super fun (or frustrating) timed jumping puzzle, the single best cash and experience farm in the game, a game of simon says in a Halloween themed Lion’s Arch with Mad King Thorn, Beetle races and more.

If you go to the starting zones the mist stranger is giving one special weapon per account. This weapon has a fancy skin, and it levels with you. (think heritage stuff from wow).

Seasons of Dragons (Return to Living World)

The next Beta week is October 26 for the final 3 Elite specializations. Thief, Ranger, and Engineer. They have already previewed a picture of a scepter wielding Thief. If they follow the same pattern they have been, we should see what the actual classes are during the first week of return to IBS.

Guild stuff: Mandatory fun Nights happen on Mondays at 8:30 Central (the only real time zone), Maellung hosts dungeon nights (best to check discord for these). If you need help with ANYTHING in game, reach out in our discord channel. Jehdai is more than happy to help people get up tough jumping puzzles, complete difficult story achievements, or even abuse his catmander tag to bring the zerg to kill that pesky legendary you need for your griffon.

See you in Tyria!

LOTRO

GAME NEWS

For our other Raid teams, Better Late Than Never and Kiddie Aggro are 9/10 Heroic and getting very close to downing The Dark Lady Sylvanas herself. Behind the Curve is 6/10 Heroic. Where Is The Tank (mains) is 7/10 Heroic and their alts team (with Dojo of Awesome) is 10 of 10 Normal. Also 10 of 10 Normal are the Filthy Casuals and our Alliance Raid Team – Hell Froze Over.

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://andrewallenmusic.com/

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

Tetsemi: Next time, we’ll be talking to Guest in Game. So until then, AIE…

– This is Tetsemi

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Congradudolences to Gusty!

New World emerges- this week!

Saturday night is alright for MEGA

*Insert Final Fantasy XIV meme here*

And, we have Maellung and Dux who are here to talk to us about AIE in LOTRO!

All that and more coming up right now…

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Ok, we’ll be digging into LOTRO shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…

AIE News

Community

Mandatory Fun Nights

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 397: Take 5 (More Levels)

The Public Test Server is updated with L80 plus Sorc and Assassin styles.

Working Class Nerds – https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com/

Episode 123: LIVE with Kogass_!!!

Marcus and Nick go LIVE on Twitch with Kogass_!!! Kogass is a longtime friend of the show, real life friend, and SWTOR Twitch Streamer! The three of them talk about Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and of course all of the gaming shenanigans that they’re up to. Enjoy!

You can find more of Kogass at: https://www.twitch.tv/kogass_

Fleet Action Report – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqEKYJPKmiiYuj7eiHy6kOg

Fleet Action Report Ep 63 Equal and Opposites

Nikodas and Grebog are looking through the mirror in this episode of Fleet Action Report. We focus on what you need to know about the new event focusing on the task force operations and without going over and spoilers a brief chat on the new episode and season.

Boards and Swords – https://boardsandswords.com

C’MON NFTs, Warhammer Escalation League, How are we doing? – Boards & Swords #181

Chris is up to his eyeballs in painting miniatures – is that someone on the inside of his ear?? How did that get there?? Board Games did well on Kickstarter again, and NFTs coming to board games?? Plus Chris & Philip talk about the past year of the show and where they see it going over the next year.

NOMADS

As with all best laid plans, this may not survive first contact with the enemy. However, until such time as we need to pivot, AIE New World will be launching in US East on the Pyrallis server as Syndicate. You will need to join the Syndicate faction to join the company so make that decision carefully since faction changes are limited. We’ll attempt to secure the Company name of Alea Iacta Est but have a few suffixes ready if that’s not possible and will post here as soon as we lock it in. Welcome to AIE in New World.

The next AIE board game night will be October 7th @ 7:30PM Central. We have had some increased activity on our board game nights lately which is great. Come join in on the fun!

WoW

WoW Classic

The first tab, currently, will be for bags and other things in limited supply, much like it is in Retail WoW.

FFXIV

Although we are at the tail end of the expansion, now is a great time to get started in FFXIV. There is a very generous trial that works fine on PCs, MACs, and Playstation 4s and 5s. While trials accounts can not join the Free Company (That’s FFXIv speak for a guild), we can provide a ton of assistance from the Discord server. If (or really, when) you purchase the game, there is an exchange of Friend Codes down in the discord server in the channel called ffxiv-friend-codes. If you do pick up a friend code, both parties will get rewards. Once a code is used, please “react” to the code with a checkmark to signify that the code has been consumed.

If you need an invite to the Free Company, just ask in our discord server in the ffxiv channel. An officer does not need to specifically be online, but anyone with a member rank or higher. A member rank is a character that has been in FFXIV for 30-ish days.

Do you like the FC buffs? Do you hate it when they expire? Well, do not despair, as any member can refresh the buffs! Just go into the FC actions in the FC panel and refresh them! Later on, we want to start to provide Grade 3 XP buffs over the weekends.

SWTOR

In more guild news, MEGA has moved to Saturday nights! Last night, Marcus led everyone around the galaxy to kill World Bosses which Tabbytha had scouted out ahead of time. If you ever wanted to acquire the Lucky title AND the Unlucky title, just come with Marcus and Tabbytha one fine MEGA night to Corellia to kill the World Boss, Lucky.

In game news, Bioware is conducting a screenshot contest for the first time ever. They are looking for landscape-style shots from 10 specific planets. If you have a golden shutter finger, or just have a favorite spot, jump in and take the shot. The rules are posted on swtor.com, but if you drop into our discord, we can toss you a link. Submissions must be by October 5th. The top 10 winning entries will be made into decorations that we can all put in our strongholds. The winners themselves will get special versions that have gilded frames.

ESO

MFN’s activities happen each week and involve either zone clears, daily dungeon runs, and/or public dungeon clears.

STO

20% off Starship sale until Monday

Bonus Dilithium until Monday

Upcoming OS and Direct X Support Changes, starting on February 15th, STO will no longer support systems that are running Windows 7 or Direct X 10 or older

Fleet Action Report will be highlight the Voice Actors that joined STO in 2020 during their show on Monday night at 11pm

And with that, let’s get back to Maellung and dux and find out what’s going on in LORTO.

GAME NEWS

The Coupon Code is: LOTROQUESTS2021

U30.2.1 (2021-09-27) pre-orders start tomorrow (9/27) for ‘Fate of Gundabad’

U30.3 is brawler + LI upgrade and will release before FoG (mid-Oct)

U31 = Fate of Gundabad.

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https://twitch.tv/maellungarrowshield

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://andrewallenmusic.com/

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

* sad noises *

Next time, we’ll be talking to well, we have an idea, we will let you know if tht pans out!! So until then, AIE…

– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.